As the spirits of the holidays are around the corner, that means Christmas festivities are coming soon. In addition, there are many exciting new activities and events coming around as the year is ending. One of which is the Operation Christmas Child project that anyone can participate in. Chino Hills High’s CSF club has participated in the annual Operation Christmas Child Shoebox collections. The Operation Christmas Child is from Samaritan’s Purse, a non-denominational organization that accepts toys, toiletries, clothes, and school supplies to be given to kids. Specifically, in which the items are put into boxes to be donated to kids that are less fortunate worldwide. People and members of CSF fill average size shoeboxes with tons of items
We just did a clothing distribution in the "regions beyond. " This is where so many of you, our partners and donors, shine. It was wonderful to see the looks on the faces of children and adults light up when we brought them new clothes, blankets, and toys. All the donated clothing, blankets, and toys were made by hand by many of our donors. You all are making a big difference in the lives of so many Haitians.
Not only have these child soldiers have been through harsh conditions of training and taken away, but child soldiers should be given amnesty because they were easy to be manipulated or forced to do such crimes. The strategy that these training camps do to manipulate these child soldiers is placing drugs to their systems, to which can cause many to be confused or to not think rationally for what actions they take upon. The article, “A Former Child Soldier Shares His Story In New Graphic Novel,” Chikwanine shares his story of when he was a young child to where they have forced him from drugs to do a crime upon his friends. The text states, “There, a fighter drugged him with a mix of cocaine and gunpowder. Chikwanine was blindfolded and made to hold a gun, then told
"We are planning this year on not taking our donations only to the Lincoln Food Bank, but also having them profit our open shelf pantry, which is on UNL's campus,” she said. “That's a pretty good motivator for UNL students to donate because
Bill looked around Los Angeles for a agency that donates toys to children, but there was nothing of the sort. Bill and Diane wanted those needy children to experience the joy of Christmas and receiving toys for that holiday, so in the end, they created the foundation Toys for Tots.
Child Soldiers-Amnesty? Swinging on the swings, licking lollipops, and playing war might be what many call ‘their childhood.’ Adults remember the fun times they had playing with Barbies or ‘shooting’ each other with Nerf guns. Yet, this is not the case for an estimated 300,000 children forced to unwilling shoot real people--during a real war.
They coordinated with Morale, Welfare and Recreation and the Community Center here. The MWR donated the bounce houses, tables and chairs free of charge. The Community Center and the 525thth Family Readiness Group donated money, making it possible for them to purchase supplies and food items. “I think it’s had a huge turnout; I didn’t know what to expect,” said Grabowski. “We just wanted to put on an event that was something that the kids could do for Easter that was family-friendly.
Decorating for Christmas Without Wasting Energy A few weeks ago, my wife and stepson were going through our collection of holiday movies and we ended up watching National Lampoon’s Christmas Vacation. One of my favorite scenes in that movie is where Clark Griswold is standing in his front yard admiring his decorating handiwork. He must have spent days, maybe weeks, stringing all those light. He did such a beautiful job too
While we have accomplished many things to help our clients, there is still more we can do. December 1st is #GivingTuesday, a global campaign bringing people across the world together on a single day to take action in support of those in need in their communities. It is and opportunity to help those less fortunate.
Child soldiers are children who are below the age of eighteen. Most of them are being dragged into the army by some people killing their families to get revenge. Some of them don't have any food or water so they join the army to get all of that. A lot of children join the army even though that's illegal to do generals still allow children to join the army.
Christmas in Iraq The Christian homes in Iraq practice a unique ceremony that is held in the home's courtyard on Christmas Eve. One of the children in the family recites the tale of the Nativity from an Arabic Bible. Other individuals from the family hold lit candles and, when the recitation finishes, a bonfire is lit in one corner of the courtyard. The fire is made of dried thorns and the fortune of the house for the year ahead relies on the way the fire burns.
Are youth able to change the world? Craig Kielburger has proven that youth do have the power to change the world. Ever since the age of 12, Craig started to realize that others were suffering in developing countries. Today, Craig has changed the lives of so many by empowering each of us to make the world a better place with his enterprise Me to We, his charity Free the Children, and his event, We Day.
For my individual community project, I volunteered at the MUST Ministries Donation Center located on Chastain Road in Kennesaw for ten hours. I did the first five hours on Saturday, October 24th and the other five hours on the next Saturday of the same month. Prior to arriving at the donation center, I received a PIN number to log in and out of the computer to identify when I started and ended my volunteer shift. On both days, I had the same experience and work to do. I had to wear gloves and go through the racks of clothes and make sure the articles of clothing were in the right section where they are suppose to belong.
This project raises awareness to the amount of homeless people in our community. As Key Club was preparing for the sleepout, each member of the club was raising money to donate to the PADS shelter. Both years I participated in the homeless sleepout, Streator and Woodland
Operation Christmas Child Children around the world are homeless,hungry,in orphanages,and have nothing to have fun with. Some children blame god for everything and that's not good, so a group of people got together and made samaritan's Purse and that made Operation Christmas Child. Operation Christmas child is for the children who don’t have anything or little to nothing and living in a very bad environment like a dump or landfill. This happens around the world and Samaritan's Purse is trying to stop it. They let the children know that they are loved and they are the future.
Due to the success of the raffle, the group i was in decided to repeat this around the school. This was more successful that we had anticipated and we managed to raise a large sum of money toward the final amount. However when he had all finished in our small groups we did still needed more money if we were to give generously, so we decided to contact a local supermarket to see if we could arrange a bag packing session, where we would pack peoples shopping for them and many of them would leave a small donation. Many of the shoppers were very generous and were fascinated to hear about